Silverwind Blade said
There's a true story on the 'net somewhere about a Strike Eagle pilot who ejected, and his seat got stuck with his head outside of the cockpit. He managed to fly back to base and even land, but had serious whiplash due to the air blasting him in the neck the whole time.
I thought seats were designed to smash the canopy if the aircraft isn't fitted with an MDC in the canopy?
For those of you who don't know what an MDC is, I'm going to point at
this photo of a Hawk. That strange pattern of lines on the canopy glass is a strip of det-cord designed to smash the canopy just before the ejection seat fires.